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by Sébastien Blanc Agence France Presse CHARLOTTESVILLE, United States (AFP) — A pretty university town imbued with American history, Charlottesville, Virginia has been thrust into the news by right-wing extremists whose views are deeply at odds with the city’s sense of its own values. This weekend was the second time this year that white supremacists occupied the normally peaceful streets of the city of 50,000. Dozens of Ku Klux Klan members had marched there […]
(Reuters) U.S. authorities will investigate on Sunday the violence stemming from a white nationalist rally a day earlier that killed one person, injured more than 30, and challenged U.S. President Donald Trump’s leadership. The unrest in the southern college town presented Trump with a domestic crisis, with many on both left and right criticizing him for waiting too long to address it and then, when he did so, failing to explicitly condemn the white-supremacist marchers […]
by Paul Handley Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States — James T. Hodgkinson, the rifle-toting 66-year-old who opened fire on a Republican lawmakers practicing for a baseball game Wednesday, was a fervent fan of leftist Senator Bernie Sanders, and disdained President Donald Trump. He showed no previous signs of violent extremism and his attack shocked people who knew him as “Hodges,” a popular, “laid-back” blue-collar worker in his hometown of Belleville, Illinois. But he was […]
By Thomas Watkins Agence France Presse ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — At least five people people including a top Republican congressman were wounded in a Washington suburb early Wednesday morning when a shooting erupted as they practiced for an annual baseball game between lawmakers. Senior congressman Steve Scalise was shot in the hip, according to fellow Republican lawmaker Mo Brooks who told CNN at least two law enforcement officers and one congressional staffer were also shot in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Senior Republican Congressman Steve Scalise was among several victims shot and wounded at a baseball practice ahead of an annual game between lawmakers in a Washington suburb, one of his colleagues said Thursday. Fellow Republican lawmaker Mo Brooks told CNN that Scalise was shot in the hip, adding that at least two law enforcement officers and one congressional staffer were shot in Alexandria, Virginia. Scalise, the majority whip who rallies […]
(Orlando, FL) – The 4th seeded Florida Gators advance to the Sweet 16 for the tenth time in program history and their first time with second- year head coach Mike White, as they top the 5th seeded Virginia Cavaliers 65-39. The Gators were led offensively by Junior Small Forward Devin Robinson who had 14 points and 11 rebounds, but the victory had much to do with the Gator’s stifling defense. “That’s about as well as […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton defeated her Republican rival Donald Trump in a hard-fought contest in battleground Virginia, US television networks reported on Tuesday. Virginia has 13 electoral college votes and while the state’s south leans Republican, its heavily-populated north — which neighbors the capital Washington — is staunchly Democratic, and helped put Clinton over the top. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
by Kerry SHERIDAN MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Orbital ATK is poised to launch an Antares rocket Monday for the first time since a massive explosion after liftoff two years ago en route to the International Space Station. The new Antares 230 rocket aims to propel an unmanned cargo capsule, called Cygnus, to the orbiting outpost carrying 5,290 pounds (2,400 kilograms) of supplies, food and science experiments. The launch is scheduled at 7:40 pm (2340 […]
HAMPTON, Virginia (Reuters) — National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers successfully conducted the second to last splashdown tests with the Orion spacecraft on Thursday (August 25) bringing the agency one step closer to its goal of eventually carrying humans to Mars. The test, conducted at the Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia was designed to simulate one of the Orion spacecraft’s most stressful landing scenarios with crash test dummies inside, a case where one of the […]
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up a series of wins on Tuesday, as the two presidential front-runners took a step toward capturing their parties’ nominations on the 2016 campaign’s biggest day of state-by-state primary contests. Trump and Clinton turned their sights on each other after their Super Tuesday wins, with Trump promising to “go after” Clinton and the former secretary of state decrying what she called Trump’s divisive rhetoric. U.S. networks […]
(Reuters) — A student at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, has contracted the Zika virus, school officials said on Monday (February 1). “We are aware of this [and] we are monitoring it,” Communications Director Suzanne Seurattan told reporters, adding that, “our conversations with our own health and wellness team, as well as the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), show that there is no health risk here on campus […]
Washington, D.C. and another five U.S. states along the U.S. East Coast on Thursday declared state of emergency as the region was bracing itself for a historic snowstorm over the weekend. As authorities in Washington, D.C., and the states of Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania declared the state of emergency on Thursday, blizzard watches were also issued by the National Weather Service along the storm’s path, stretching from Arkansas through Tennessee and Kentucky to […]
